Computer assisted emergency monitoring system, CAEMS.

This system CAMES, a prototype for real-time integration of multitudinous devices into a physiological intelligent monitoring system useful in intensive care unit (ICU). An IBM compatible PC is used as a console and connects to one bedside monitor via A/D converter. A Z-80 controller is used as the slave of the console and integrates information of one ventilator and three infusion venous pumps (IV-pumps) via RS-232. The communication protocol between console and slave is the RS-232. The SCO UNIX operation system, ANSI C language and X-windows utility are used in developing CAMES. From experimental results, this system successfully provides a friendly operational interface for clinicians and nurses, integrates information from bedside devices, report patient’s state and physiological parameters, displays and records the results. It is highly effective to be used as an integrated physiological monitor, a patient information system or a computer-based patient recorder (CPR). It can be networked to the whole hospital networks. (in 1993)